Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

An Icelandic game for creating a constitution

• Games and gamification

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Media

An editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.

• Newsletter tech
• Graveyard

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

Project Isizwe works to extend free wifi across low-income communities in South Africa and runs the Tobetsa content portal.

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

We believe that everyone has a story and can contribute to the news narrative. Tipster is a news sharing platform that is democratizing the news making business by placing the power of the media into the hands of ordinary people whom we call Tipstars. Tipster is basically empowering anyone with a smartphone to be an amateur journalist. Tipster provides a secure channel for ordinary people to upload exclusive news content (images, videos and reports) which is then distributed/sold to content consumers and publishers (probloggers, Media Houses, TV channels etc) depending on the type of content.

• News to action

Merged into https://firstdraftnews.org. Was a directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of eyewitness reports and user generated content online. Managed by Josh Stearns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Our trusted network of actions makes it easy for users to find great content that is personalized to their interests, and for them to track the impact they have made.

• apps

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The People
• The Tech
• Engagement tech

JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based user-generated content website founded by Maxence Melo and Mike Mushi in 2006. Members of the website can comment on existing topics or start new topics. The website has been viewed by some as a whistle-blowing platform as citizens blow the whistle on issues that concern the public. Topics on the website range from politics, corruption and governance, and over time the site has become a source of breaking news and a secure whistleblowing platform. The founders of the website have advocated for freedom of media and social networking in Tanzania. The website is notable as the most popular social media website in Tanzania, according to AllAfrica.

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Use these cards early in the design process to help you sketch, plan, prototype and design content, interactions and processes.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Wordpress plugin that would connect the post content to related social actions the reader could take

• extensions
• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.

• Organize campaigns
• Data visualization
• Direct action

B Corp digital agency that leverages data and tech to increase the impact of social impact organizations. We provide analytics, content marketing, and advertising services to socially conscious companies and nonprofits.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

Lifiled offers access to lighting, high-speed internet and educational content using a LED light bulb and Light Fidelity (Lifi) technology

• Emerging Tech report

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• cities

The New Media Index is an effort by PEJ to monitor the content appearing in new media platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

It is a platform that will innovate technology to increase access to the Malawi story, including access to the historical manuscripts at the National Archives of Malawi, and other well-researched content authored by ‘Logos – Open culture’, and other producers

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Conferences
• Emerging Tech Conferences

Homepage Content

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone

SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters. Instead of hiring a consultant to write your content and produce custom art for every mailer, SpeakEasy allows campaigns to use pre-built design templates and their own photography and text to produce their own direct mail.

• Organize campaigns

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherDan Gillmor's Bayosphere citizen media project has been acquired by Backfence, a Vienna, Virginia based company that intends to use local communities to generate all online content and sell advertising around it.It is a logical move but it also shows that citizen media is not easy to do. Bayosphere did not...

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Engagement tech

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Filter bubble popper tool, killed by Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census

• The People
• The Tech
• Get funding

We are not just a widget – we are THE platform for brands to scale content marketing and insight

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Engagement tech

Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• COVID
• Decentralization

A community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!

• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Drones

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Bots
• Emerging tech

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Filter bubble poppers